Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harrison and Whitney will get in their respective strike votes remains to be seen. The ballots will not be counted much before October 1, when the 15% cut is finally scheduled to go into effect. After that, the National Railway Labor Act still has a long string to its bow. The President may appoint a fact-finding commission to report to him within 30 days. Thereupon both parties must preserve the status quo for another 30 days. Unless Franklin Roosevelt chooses to have the nation's most far-flung industry on strike on Election Day, railroad peace should last...
...blockade. About midnight, with lights out, the José Luis Diez passed Tangier, the internationally governed protectorate of Morocco. Off Tarifa, southern tip of Spain, the destroyer caught two armed Rightist trawlers. Commander Castro put their crews of 24 men in chains in the destroyer's bow and sank the trawlers. Ten miles east of British-owned Gibraltar, at 2:15 a.m., just when Commander Castro thought he had successfully eluded his enemies, the 8-inch guns of the Rightist cruiser Canarias began to boom out of the dark. Soon three Rightist destroyers joined the attack...
...direct hit in the port bow killed the 24 chained prisoners and eight of the crew...
...Goddess Ubasti from the 6th Century B.C. Comparable to great similar bronzes in the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, the Cleveland Museum and the Bliss Collection in Washington, D. C., it possesses, as the museum eloquently pointed out, "in a static pose, the strength and snap of a taut bow string...
...bow to the will of the majority. . . . No excuses, alibis or regrets...